Re: [PATCH 3/3] tomoyo: robustify handling of mm->exe_file

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Thu Feb 19 2015 - 13:22:42 EST


On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 20:07 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Why do we need to let the caller call path_put() ?
> There is no need to do like proc_exe_link() does, for
> tomoyo_get_exe() returns pathname as "char *".

Having the pathname doesn't guarantee anything later, and thus doesn't
seem very robust in the manager call if it can be dropped during the
call... or can this never occur in this context?

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